Indians at US Open: Sania, Paes advance; Bhupathi crashes out

Sania and her Chinese partner cruised into the second round, easily seeing off the challenge of Germany's Annika Beck and Puerto Rican Monica Puig in straight sets. They won 6-2, 6-2 on court 16 at the USTA National Tennis Center.

The 10th seeds will play the Hungarian-American combine of Katalin Marosi and Megan Moulton-Levy.

Image: The doubles team of Sania Mirza of India and Jie Zheng of ChinaPhotographs: Elsa/Getty Images

Indians at US Open: Sania, Paes advance; Bhupathi crashes out

However, it was curtains for Bhupathi and partner Philipp Petzschner of Germany.

They lost 6-3, 7-6(7-4) to the Canadian pair of Daniel Nestor and Vasek Pospisil.

Nestor, who recently split with his Swedish partner Robert Linstedt, and Pospisil are also Davis Cup teammates and will be part of the Canadian team that plays in the Davis Cup semi-finals in September against Serbia.

Nestor has won eight Grand Slam doubles titles with various partners, including the 2004 US Open.

Pospisl recently made it to the semi-finals of the singles event at the Rogers Cup and broke into the top 40 of the world rankings.